Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c827f62983a0b28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB
MD5: a1c52b710e4570f148fc62b007fdb06b SHA-1: 2b4745de4baedeea031c203d83072232744b5a1a SHA-256: 5c827f62983a0b28fedea69a835c9f895ea078641eb80475ab986d836e28b683
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, which is a known method for client-side code execution. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads further indicates malicious intent. While no specific family is identified, the exploit targets a common vector for delivering malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream low PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
766297603a73cf6ab0ad1f2c0a7bcb68967839c706be385c24c2d54044163938		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101574 bytes

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